Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 58.

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The stowaways, each with only a spoonful of rice and a cup of fresh water, were quickly distributed, and Ulrich Sandmann and two of his own subordinates expertly packed up the empty plastic bins while several other members of the snake-headed group who had gone down to the basement with them groped their way into the crowd, and a tug and a fight sounded in the dimness, accompanied by begging and sobbing, and soon seven or eight women were herded out of the crowd and towards the hatch not far away.

The other stowaways were just silent in response.

The women involved in the smuggling were already few, and Ulrich knew that these were women without a master. Lacking the protection of a man, not just now, but perhaps when they arrived in France, it wouldn't end well.

Ulrich and his three men followed with empty barrels out of the bilge, and as soon as they arrived on deck, the place was already bustling with activity, with all the members of the Snakeheads on board participating, masked and naked, like an open-air orgy on the sea under the stars.

Declining Captain Renault's invitation, Ulrich's three men returned the empty barrels to the galley and then returned together to their cabin.

The two subordinates who had been following Ulrich for a long time may have been moved inside, but there was no mention of being involved, and this superior of theirs was very gentle when he was gentle, and harsh enough when he was harsh, even if, if necessary, Ulrich would kill them decisively.

Not being able to participate in the orgy on deck wasn't due to any moral factor, they were already swimming in darkness, not to mention morality, and the law didn't bind them much.

Mostly it may affect their mission.

That's all.

Back in their cabin, the trio played poker for a while, then rested and awoke again, the outdoors still dark.

The darkness before dawn.

The freighter quietly arrived off the coast of France.

Without a dock, more than a hundred people arrived on shore in several speedboats that had come to meet them, here near the southern French city of Nice.

Three days after disembarkation, it was a quiet but cautious series of transit, a total of 129 stowaways, except for a few to join friends and relatives, most of them were divided into several groups and rushed to the French capital Paris, Ulrich's team to follow up, read the entire smuggling process, the task is not over, but also to investigate the illegal immigrant resettlement network here in France.

Smugglers arriving in France, led by organized gangs of illegal immigrants, are quickly assigned to various shadowy corners of the country to start their 'new' lives, based on gender, age and skills.

Dutifully following up the entire placement process, Ulrich and his two subordinates rushed to one of their positions in Geneva, Switzerland.

It was already July 3.

This time, all five teams under Ulrich's name were sent out to cover all the smuggling routes from Latin America, Africa, Asia and other parts of the world to France, except for the smuggling team on the Asian side, which was still en route because of the long journey, and the other teams all returned successfully.

The next step is to collate the information for the mission report.

The northern part of Lake Geneva from the Geneva city center has been somewhat remote in a lakeside villa, Ulrich is a huge map of the world in front of a red pen carefully traced, this large area of the open office room door was pushed open, a subordinate from outside hurriedly came in, holding a document: "boss, the Russian side of the election results came out, Yeltsin. Winning the election."

Ulrich's tracing hand didn't stop at all, clearly not very interested.

Dennis Peck, who had just completed a smuggling voyage from Libya to France and was the leader of Ulrich's team 2, saw that his boss wasn't interested, accosted him, put down the printed page of the network news, pulled up an office chair, sat down, looked at Ulrich's sketch, and thought, "Sir, I think I might have some idea what our big boss wants to do? "

Ulrich still worked in silence.

Dennis Peck smiled again sadly and turned to the other man who was busy at the computer next to him, "Rafael, do you want to know?"

The white man in his early thirties named Rafael Creech smiled and shook his head.

Dennis Peck looked like he was wounded and grasping at straws, and really couldn't resist the urge to say, whether his companion wanted to hear it or not, "I think our big boss wants to do the exact opposite of the one thing that Hitler did back then."

Ulrich frowned slightly at Dennis' words and finally scolded, "Danny, I don't want to hear another word from you like speculating about the intentions of the top or I'll make a report and you're not fit for the job you have now."

Dennis Peck's neck cringed at the words, knowing Ulrich was not joking at all, and said, "I promise, guv'nor, never again."

For the current job, Dennis Peck did not have any dissatisfaction in any case, he did not want to be kicked out, in fact, Dennis was definitely not a man of many words, only in front of Ulrich would be chatty, mainly because Dennis was a subordinate that Ulrich had personally brought out when he was in Stasi, not only also mentor and friend, there was even an almost affectionate friendship in it.

Dennis, of course, understood that Ulrich's warning was actually for his own good.

Ulrich was not interested in the results of the Russian election that had just been released, however, on this day, the attention of the global media was focused on this matter.

Simon also received the news first.

After half a year of difficult campaigning, Yeltsin, whose public support had nearly collapsed, finally defeated his biggest rival, Juganov, with 53% of the vote and was re-elected to the Russian presidency.

In Simon's view, the election was also another watershed for Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

If Russia's economy had been in collapse for the past few years, with the results of this election, the major Russian oligarchs who propped up Yeltsin's re-election took further control of every aspect of the country and began to increase the rate of expansion, which, combined with the inaction of Yeltsin's second term, plunged the country's economy even deeper into the abyss.

The day after the Russian elections, the clock came to July 4.

American Independence Day.

Simon and the two Jenny were busy all day, mainly to attend the wedding of Denise Entertainment CEO Amy Pascal, the Hollywood executive followed Simon all the way to the development of Denise Entertainment, so for Amy's wedding, Simon also gave twelve minutes of attention,.

Amy Pascal, however, did not make a big deal out of it, the total number of guests invited by the forest is less than 100, but also lively all day, the executive then only planned to spend a short solo holiday weekend with her husband to get back to work, and the honeymoon will be made up later.

Also on this day, the North American summer season kicked off a new week.

Although July 4 was a Thursday, the box office week was moved up a day because of the holiday, and three major new films opened that day: MGM's same-sex comedy "The Birdcage," Disney's Sean Connery's action-packed "Island" and Sony's comic book adaptation "The Phantom Menace.

This was followed the next day by the end of what had previously been a full box office week.

Last week, from June 29 to July 4, Danielle Entertainment's only major summer release, "Guillotine Valley," topped the box office, beating out "Ghostbusters," which had been the previous weekly box office champion.

Although it doesn't have the same aura as the Batman series, Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" is still receiving a lot of positive reviews, with an overall media score of 8.8, which is close to being a classic.

Even Simon feels that perhaps it's the absence of the once-rotten Batman series, which got worse and worse in the nineties, that has instead allowed Tim Burton's new film to gain more attention and acclaim. It's also because without the former Batman, Tim Burton's curiosity in Hollywood was significantly reduced, and he was able to save on all aspects of costs, with the production budget for this "Broken Head Valley" ending up being only $70 million, far less than the $100 million in the original space and time.

In its first seven days of its opening week, "Brokedown Valley" took in $51.39 million in its first week with a museum average of nearly $17,000.

In its history, the local box office gross of "The Valley of the Broken Heads" was only about $100 million. This time, with the support of Danielle Entertainment's strong publicity campaign, the fantasy film, which was advertised as "every frame is enough for a beautiful poster", opened to $51.39 million. It could gain at least 50%.

Considering that the total cost of production and distribution of the film is only $100 million, the local box office is expected to be no less than $150 million, which is enough to recoup most of the cost. The box office alone will be enough for Daenerys Entertainment to recoup most of its profits.

Along with the success of "Brokeback Valley", the popularity of the film's leading men and women, Johnny Depp and Mia Kirschner, increased significantly.

After making a name for himself with "Edward Scissorhands", Depp's development over the years has been rocky, although there are still such acclaimed masterpieces as "Different Skies", but commercially it has been lukewarm, and even the beginnings of a slide from the second to the third tier.

The other Mia Kerschner, more typical.

The Westeros Girls.

Hollywood doesn't publicly call it that, after all, Simon has made a bit too many stars, but it's clear that Mia Kerschner is another classic case of someone making a name for herself.

After all, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Little Women at the age of just 20, which is one of the few in Hollywood.

Well-informed insiders also know that Simon Westeros gave Tim Burton a high authority, only in the actress above did not compromise, insisted on using Mia Kirschner, the appearance of the innocent with a particularly cold atmosphere in the actress will also be the "valley of the severed head" in the interpretation of the female lead wonderful.

And so, after the trials and tribulations of the previous few films, Mia Kerschner was equally famous.

It was a one-hit wonder that really didn't hold water.

The popularity gain that a heavyweight movie brings to an actor is completely unmatched by low-budget films that make only a few million dollars at the box office.

Ultimately, an actor who wants to be famous spells fame, the more people you can make your name known, the higher your curiosity, and being in a heavy hitter movie destined for a massive global release, even if the film is not a success, is enough to give the actor a pretty high profile.

Along with the success of Brokedown Valley, Danielle Entertainment has also taken advantage of the situation to announce that Mia Kirshner will be starring in new Hollywood director James Mangold's new film, Soul Shifter Girl, along with Angelina Jolie, daughter of Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight.

Because of the Doklam Day holiday, coupled with the two films in the subject matter does not have too much conflict, "007's Ghost Party" in the third week of release, in the face of the "Broken Head Valley" impact, the box office decline is still strong to maintain the 31%, to collect another $ 38.6 million, the release of three weeks, the James Bond series super heavy bomb cumulative box office quickly rushed to a total of $ 183.99 million high.

With the current box-office trend, "007's Ghost Party" is basically a lock for the 1996 summer box-office championship. Whether or not it will be able to hold on to the box office title will depend on the box office performance of films such as Wonder Woman 2 and Charlie's Angels at the end of the year.

With two heavy hitters taking the lion's share of the box office, the rest of the films on the weekly box office list can only be described as completely dismal.

Thus worthless.

The Solo Day weekend was followed by a new week on July 8, when the Westeros system officially opened its second half of the year with a bond issue.

First to be announced was a $3 billion bond financing package for America Online.

The first half of the Westeros system's continuous reduction action has made too many people wary of the risk of bursting the new technology bubble, Simon under pressure from all sides to abandon the long-term reduction plan, did not expect, just into the second half of the year, suddenly came back to this, many people were caught off guard.

Even though America Online's announcement that this $3 billion bond will be mainly for overseas investors, the day the news was announced, the North American stock market still fell significantly, all the way up the Nasdaq market fell 1.2% in a single day, after all, the market are not stupid.

It's just that wisdom and sanity are very often two different things.

After Monday's 1.2% drop, the Nasdaq rebounded by 0.7% on Tuesday, and again by 0.8% on Wednesday, so for three days, the Nasdaq market as a whole not only didn't fall, but also rose slightly.

By the close of business on Wednesday afternoon, July 10, the Nasdaq had reached 4,215.

Meanwhile, among the several leading technology stocks that have received the most attention from the capital markets, Igret Corporation is gradually beginning to ride in the dust, and on Wednesday, the market capitalization of this Internet behemoth was already as high as $387.6 billion, following the Nasdaq's breakthrough of 4,000 points, and it is clear that the North American stock market will soon have a $400 billion level company as well.

Among industry predictions, Ygritte's eventual market capitalization could end up monopolizing about 10 percent of the entire Nasdaq market.

Compared to what Yahoo once was, this may seem implausible, however, Igret is now far more than a portal to what Yahoo once was.

With continuous and continuous business upgrades, the portal business now occupies a smaller and smaller, if not insignificant, portion of Igret's business.

On the other hand, in fact, the most important point is that no matter it is the Internet infrastructure tools and software that Igorit has a complete monopoly, or the online advertising business that is growing rapidly, or even the e-commerce business that is growing rapidly in terms of transaction volume, or the cloud computing business that is the largest in the world, all of these have brought Igorit a large amount of revenue, which is something that even if it had reached the pinnacle of hundreds of billions of market capitalization, it would not have been possible. A complete business model that is completely incomparable to Yahoo!